The ETF's known as Select Sector SPDRs divide the S&P 500 stocks into nine industry sectors. Using these funds the investor and trader can target a particular industry or group of industries which they believe holds potential. Because of the dynamics of the market there are usually strong sectors and weak sectors at any point in time. This is obvious by reviewing these performance numbers.

Below you will see the Total Return for these funds over the past year. The S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has been included for reference. The default order is by Relative Strength but you can sort on any other column by clicking either the Ascending or Descending arrows. ( ).

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Volume Filter dolVol21 ----- dolVol21 Vol60 > < 0 ----- 0 100,000 500,000 1,000,000 5,000,000 10,000,000 Right Column:      default ----- default Price Volume cGroup $vol-21 Rtn-YTD RRS21 RRS42 RRS63 RRS126 RRS189 RRS252

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✓	Name	Symbol	RSf	Rtn-1d	Rtn-5d	Rtn-1mo	Rtn-3mo	Rtn-6mo	Rtn-1yr	$vol-21
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Discretionary	XLY	90.32	2.05	1.95	6.56	10.20	17.27	13.16	156m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Health Care	XLV	88.97	0.58	1.12	3.57	9.91	15.99	14.87	226m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Industrial	XLI	85.56	1.72	2.19	7.53	13.49	18.76	3.88	410m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Consumer Staples	XLP	81.67	0.31	0.81	0.28	6.44	11.93	14.76	229m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Technology	XLK	79.44	1.28	3.05	7.11	8.76	14.16	6.16	227m
	SPDR S&P 500	SPY	72.54	1.40	2.06	5.36	9.20	13.17	5.03	19b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Utilities	XLU	70.95	0.26	0.29	-0.88	1.44	12.49	13.43	287m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Materials	XLB	64.29	1.36	1.88	9.10	11.01	11.47	-2.23	321m
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Financial	XLF	49.92	2.72	4.32	10.83	12.04	8.78	-9.84	1b
	Select Sector SPDR Fund - Energy Select Sector	XLE	49.76	1.76	1.80	2.21	5.16	6.74	-0.59	997m

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The dynamics of Relative Strength are illustraded below for the past quarter. From this you can visualize which funds are improving on a relative basis and which are deteriorating.

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Symbol	02/03	01/27	01/20	01/12	01/05	12/28	12/20	12/13	12/06	11/29	11/21	11/14	11/07
XLY	90.3	88.4	87.6	85.8	87.5	83.4	85.3	87.4	88.4	78.5	80.8	88.2	87.2
XLV	89.0	91.6	92.9	92.9	90.8	89.9	90.8	85.1	81.1	79.7	76.4	87.3	84.5
XLI	85.6	83.7	82.6	84.0	74.7	70.8	73.2	66.1	73.7	63.3	65.5	66.8	55.6
XLP	81.7	88.3	88.8	90.7	94.4	95.9	95.7	94.0	93.9	90.5	85.8	90.1	89.3
XLK	79.4	77.4	78.9	75.4	77.4	75.8	82.8	88.4	90.1	76.5	81.4	84.7	82.4
SPY	72.5	74.3	79.2	77.6	78.4	75.9	76.3	75.5	77.3	69.3	66.0	72.2	70.6
XLU	71.0	87.6	86.5	94.3	95.7	97.2	97.2	96.7	96.0	93.1	94.2	94.4	94.8
XLB	64.3	61.7	63.7	62.6	49.4	44.1	42.9	37.8	46.5	38.6	41.4	47.4	44.1
XLF	49.9	40.0	48.8	47.3	39.2	34.4	34.1	30.8	34.0	20.5	24.2	22.6	21.3
XLE	49.8	45.7	52.2	62.4	79.0	74.2	64.3	67.9	77.0	66.4	61.3	84.3	86.2